Unable to install Maven on Windows: “JAVA_HOME is

Question

I followed the Maven tutorial to the letter but I still can't get Maven installed on Windows.

When I run the following in command prompt:

E:\Documents and Settings\zach>mvn --version

I get:

'mvn' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

I navigated to the maven install folder and ran mvn --version and got:

E:\java resources\apache-maven-2.2.0\bin>mvn --version
ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory.
JAVA_HOME = "E:\Sun\SDK\jdk\bin"
Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
location of your Java installation

but when I run java -version I get:

java version "1.6.0_14"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_14-b08)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 14.0-b16, mixed mode)

So I do have Java installed. Anyone know what the problem is?

Answer 1

Due to security restrictions at my current place of work I was unable to set enviroment variables on my Windows based PC.

My workaround was to copy the mvn.bat file from %M2% into C:\WINNT and add the following to the top of the batch file:

@REM Needed as unable to set env variables on my desktop PC.

set MAVEN_OPTS=-Xms256m -Xmx1024m
set M2_HOME=C:\apache-maven-3.0.4
set M2=%M2_HOME%\bin
set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_15
set PATH=%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%M2%;%PATH%

Not the nicest solution but it works. If anybody has any other way or work-around where the standard env vars are not able to be set into the system I'd welcome their response.

Answer 2

The JDK has switched locations of java.exe between 1.6 and 1.7!!!

In my case I found that the JAVA_HOME for the JDK had to add the \jre on the end. The mvn bat file is looking for java.exe and it looks for it in JAVA_HOME\bin. Its not there for JDK 1.7; it is in JAVA_HOME\jre\bin. In JDK 1.6 such it IS in JAVA_HOME\bin.

Hope this helps somebody.

Answer 3

Running eclipse and also running Maven will require you to store two path variables, one in your jdk1.7_x_x_x location and also in your jdk1.7_x_x_\bin. If you are using Windows, when you are in your environment variables, do the following:

1) create a USER variable called JAVA_HOME. Point this to the location of your JAVA file. For example: "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_51" (remove the quotes)

2) under the PATH, append %JAVA_HOME% to the PATH. This will add the file location from step 1 to your PATH. This is good for MAVEN

3) if you are using eclipse you need to have the path point to "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_51\bin". Now append %JAVA_HOME%\bin to the end of your path.

4) your path should look something like this: C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\google_appengine\;C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm;%M2%;%JAVA_HOME%;%JAVA_HOME%\bin

Notes: the items that are enclosed in %'s like %M2% are assigned variables. It looks redundant but necessary. You can confirm that everything works by typing in:

java -version
javac -version
mvn -version

Each of those three statements typed in comman prompt should not return errors.

Answer 4

I ran into this issue with a Grails install.

The problem was my JAVA_HOME was c:\sun\jdk\ and my PATH has %JAVA_HOME%bin

I changed it to: JAVA_HOME= "c:\sun\jdk" and PATH="%JAVA_HOME%\bin"

It worked after that.

Answer 5

using windows 10

I was facing issue .. then I removed JAVA_HOME variable completly and just added %JAVA_HOME%\bin in PATH then it worked!!! for mee

Answer 6

ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory. JAVA_HOME = "E:\Sun\SDK\jdk\bin" Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the location of your Java installation

JAVA_HOME should be set to E:\Sun\SDK\jdk. PATH should be set to include %JAVA_HOME%\bin.